Difference between revisions of "Thread:User talk:Skilgannon/Spam bot invasion/reply"

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More suggestions:
 
More suggestions:
 
* IP-ban these bozos.
 
* IP-ban these bozos.
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* Do some of the stuff mentioned [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Combating_vandalism here].
 
* Merge all spam accounts together so we can keep track of them more easily.
 
* Merge all spam accounts together so we can keep track of them more easily.
 
* Delete/hide spam entries from [[Special:RecentChanges]].
 
* Delete/hide spam entries from [[Special:RecentChanges]].

Latest revision as of 04:22, 24 August 2017

An admin can mass-cleanup the spam by using Special:Nuke on suspicious users from Special:ActiveUsers, as well as suspicious edits from Special:RecentChanges.

In the light of this, I would like to nominate User:Beaming and User:Cb for admin rights.

Skilgannon's email can be found in Contacts.

More discussion on this attack can be found here and here.

More suggestions:

  • IP-ban these bozos.
  • Do some of the stuff mentioned here.
  • Merge all spam accounts together so we can keep track of them more easily.
  • Delete/hide spam entries from Special:RecentChanges.